Ok, now I'm irritated with the freezing

[Wolfpup]

What color is the sky in your world?

XP has the "blue screen of death" and OSX has "panics". I'm sure Vista has something but I've never used it.

Irrelevant. Flash, nor any other application that isn't tied in in some way to the OS's level, CAN NOT BRING DOWN THE OS aside from the ways I've mentioned. If it isn't defective hardware or drivers, there's a serious flaw in the OS.

I've had Photoshop totally freeze a fully patched Windows XP SR2 box - nothing, no keyboard, no mouse, squat. I was working at a client's premises and had to call their tech guy; he didn't seem surprised and turned it off using the power button.

Then again, there's something wrong-the system configuration, hardware, maybe it has spyware on it. It can not bring Windows down. That isn't possible.

Your MBP will be fine

I don't know...

 

[AdeFowler]

...maybe it has spyware on it...

Which I assume then could cause a system freeze, yet a misbehaving app can't?

Then again, there's something wrong-the system configuration, hardware, maybe it has spyware on it. It can not bring Windows down

Well it did, on a machine with no network or internet connection. I'm not going to get into an argument because I know very little about how Windows works.

 

[majordude]

Irrelevant. Flash, nor any other application that isn't tied in in some way to the OS's level, CAN NOT BRING DOWN THE OS aside from the ways I've mentioned. If it isn't defective hardware or drivers, there's a serious flaw in the OS.

BSODs and panics are impossibilities unless XP and OSX are seriously flawed?

 

[Wolfpup]

Which I assume then could cause a system freeze, yet a misbehaving app can't?

Right. Normal apps don't run at the same level as the OS. Malware may be doing anything...

Well it did, on a machine with no network or internet connection. I'm not going to get into an argument because I know very little about how Windows works.

Well, like I said, it wasn't Windows. There was something else wrong, and it's a cop out for an IT person to just wave it away like that.

BSODs and panics are impossibilities unless XP and OSX are seriously flawed?

They should be extraordinarily rare, but what's impossible is for a normal application to cause them.

 

[ritarazzle]

new imac freezes

I just bought a new imac 8/24/7 and installed only iwork, mac gourmet and firefox (because I had to in order to navigate properly on certain websites I need), and I am finding that my computer is freezing more frequently. I hate to re-install the system software after less than a month or “eek!” even take it back. Are there any sugestions?
Thank You

 

[angelodmhl]

Maybe the hard disk is dying. Mine used to freeze all the time before the HD died.

 

[mad jew]

I just bought a new imac 8/24/7 and installed only iwork, mac gourmet and firefox (because I had to in order to navigate properly on certain websites I need), and I am finding that my computer is freezing more frequently. I hate to re-install the system software after less than a month or “eek!” even take it back. Are there any sugestions?
Thank You

Do you have any third party hardware installed or connected? What exactly are you doing when it freezes? If it is the hard drive, then verifying it in Disk Utility might be able to confirm this for us.

 

[ritarazzle]

I am connected to the internet via att and I have a canon Mp470 printer.
I have been running itunes in the background. I think my first freeze was after I installed iworks which I usually leave numbers on to keep track of my budget. If I run disk utility is there somewhere I can read how to do this?
I run a mac at work but have a tech when we have problems. Thanks

 

[mad jew]

• Simply open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
• Click on your drive in the left pane.
• Click on Verify Disk (not Verify Disk Permissions).
• Wait as the system freezes for a while.

Report back if it gives you any errors.

 

[ritarazzle]

I ran the disk utilty when I cam e home and I also talked to our outside tech today. He said that if I am connected to the internet in the background (which I am) it could be causing conflicts and suggested I should unplug my internet for awhile and see what happens.
Thanks Again!

 

[mad jew]

So Disk Utility came back with no errors? I'm not sure the internet is the cause of the freezing... Maybe try disconnecting the printer to see if it's that.

 

[ritarazzle]

O.K. this is weird. I came home and woke up my screen an saw that I had an e-mail from work. I worked on my budget a bit, went to see who mailed me and back to numbers when it crashed and I had to force quit. I started up and there was no new e-mail, went to get mail, still no mail, shut the program down and reopened... no mail.

Just a another note I have not been able to quit just on program that is not responding, it's always a force quit from behind the computer and when I start up, I also don't hear the apple sound.

 

[mad jew]

ritarazzle, the startup sounds is called a POST. Hearing a POST means the computer has passed its "power on self tests". The POST checks some hardware components of your machine. Assuming your speakers aren't muted and you haven't installed some sort of hack to disable the POST sound, you have a hardware problem. It might be time to take this machine in to a technician.

 

[ritarazzle]

I was actually planning on going to the apple store after work today for a Wacum tablet and I will be bringing the print outs. Thanks

 

[CalBoy]

Well, it's back. Today, while watching a classic South Park episode (Make Love not Warcraft), my mbp froze yet again. There haven't been any flash updates have there? This is really beginning to puzzle me, because I had over a month of no-freezes, and now it's randomly returned.

 

[ritarazzle]

Random freezing replaced imac

Well, after taking my new iMac to te apple store and running their diagnostics they could only find minor errors. I explained that I work on a mac on a daily basis and I know that this is not normal. After another week of random freezing I brought it back to the apple store again, and they swapped it for a new one. One freeze in 2 weeks. I can live with that.

 

[sergeytodorov]

MacBook Pro 2.2GHz SR freezing

My MacBook Pro 15" (Santa Rosa chipset) freezes occasionally.

At first I thought it was a problem when connecting an external display, but it happens even when I have not hooked anything to the DVI port. The freezes occur in plain OS X (not a game or anything special) and I think I have traced the issue to something related to the graphics card. Each time the system freezes, I have the following error in the system.log

Jan 15 16:27:40 Suuuju kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel timeout!

The MacBook passes the Apple Hardware Test in both the default setting and the extended test without a problem. I also tried MemTest in a single-user environment and the Mac passes that too.

The problem could be heat-related in some way because when the MacBook freezes, its base (the underside towards the screen) is on the hot side. Most times I had an internet video (for instance YouTube) playing or some other Flash animation in Safari (although Flash may not have anything to do with this). I can reproduce the problem pretty consistently by opening one pretty intensive Flash site. www.group94.com is the site in question, and if you go Work at the top there (click cut the crap at the bottom after that) and open for instance the Experiences + Web Campaigns sections, there is some pretty intensive graphics action. After 10-20 minutes on this, the MacBook would freeze.

The freezes are like this: the screen is completely frozen (cursor not moving), but if there is an iTunes track playing it would continue playing. Also the Caps Lock and the Num Lock buttons work (i.e. they light-up their respective diodes). Command + Option + Esc does nothing.

My full MacBook Pro specifications are as follows

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B05
SMC Version: 1.16f10

Mac OS X Leopard, 10.5.1 fully up-to-date

Please, if anyone has info on the problem or a possible solution... please let me know.

 

[ritarazzle]

After taking it int to see the guru at apple the second time, they gave me a completely new, out of the box imac, transfered all my data over and I haven't had a problem since.

Good Luck

 

[gholmes1936]

G4 Tower freezing with Flash and Adobe Photoshop CS2

I get the same problem and it's driving me up the wall. Have tried to figure it out. My old Machine is up to date as far as OS 10.4.11 goes and has had the CPU upgraded. In the past I had a few freezes with itunes but that doesn't happen anymore.

By adding Photoshop to this thread do any of you have any other ideas?

I am using Safari mostly and went to the http://www.group94.com/ URL as sergeytodorov suggested and played that one game for over ten minutes with no freezes whatsoever. I have Eudora running at the same time, as well as MacTracker, Activity Monitor, and Photoshop CS2. No freezes at this time. Sometimes after working on an image in Photoshop for a long time it'll freeze.

HELP ME!!!!